“Working with the original cast has been an incredible experience,” said Alistair Hope, Creative Lead on Alien: Isolation. “It was important to us to have the key original cast members reprise their roles in order to perfectly capture the atmosphere of the movie. For some of the original cast, this is their first appearance in an Alien video game. Seeing them reprise those roles after 35 years was an unforgettable experience.”

Anyone who pre-orders the game will get a free upgrade to the Nostromo Edition, which includes the bonus content “Crew Expendable”. Players can choose to play as one of three surviving crewmembers, only moments after Brett’s death at the jaws of the creature. As Ellen Ripley, Dallas or Parker, players can explore the Nostromo from habitation deck down through engineering, coordinating their efforts with Lambert and Ash to lure the Alien into the ship’s airlock.

In addition, consumers in North America who pre-order at GameStop and customers in Europe who pre-order at select retailers will exclusively also receive “Last Survivor” in which players pick up the story as Ripley tries to escape on the Narcissus. On hearing the screams of Lambert and Parker, players must navigate their way back down through the Nostromo in order to activate the self-destruct sequence, before retracing their steps back to the Narcissus shuttle and their escape.

Alien: Isolation is a first-person survival horror game capturing the fear and tension evoked by Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic film. Players find themselves in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger as an unpredictable, ruthless Xenomorph is stalking and killing deep in the shadows. Underpowered and underprepared, you must scavenge resources, improvise solutions and use your wits, not just to succeed in your mission, but to simply stay alive.

Alien: Isolation will be available from October 7, 2014, for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox 360 games, and PlayStation 3.

Nope. Won’t spend a dime on this game at all if this remains pre-order exclusive content. It may turn out to be a great game, but I’m perfectly fine missing out based on principle. I will not support these ideas.

No, this also does not mean I will pirate it as I do not do that, nor do I condone others doing it. But trying to get people to give you money before even knowing how the game will be is just shameful. Especially after the Colonial Marines fiasco. This is how you treat consumers? “Roll the dice and give us money now or you won’t get it at all.”?

Shameful, SEGA.

Can’t believe other tools are being so easily tricked into throwing their money at it. People should never pre-order anything unless they already know exactly what they’re getting through a demo or a well-establishes series that is known not to disappoint. Not just because the pretty shinies you otherwise couldn’t get. All you’re doing is enabling more companies to get you to give them money before even knowing how good or bad their product even is.

It’s withheld content for those who don’t purchase in advance. Which effectively devalues the proposition for me.
In a game that’s meant to be for fans of the original Alien film this kind of content makes all the difference – and should be included for everyone.
The only people who seem to get DLC right these days are CD Project with their free Enhanced Edition updates – that way nobody feels screwed over when buying their games at full price.

There shouldn’t even be Pre Orders when buying digitally – as shipment equals demand. There are other ways to predict sales – without having to have consumers paying upfront. I feel this is anti-consumer and will hold out for the inevitable GotY edition with proper Oculus Rift support.